aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x088af2e8 ***

Binary package hint: aptitude

The problem occured immediately after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 beta1 upon updating the repositories via "sudo aptitude safe-update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade". The repositories were successfully downloaded, and then immediately followed by the crash before extended state information could be written.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: aptitude 0.4.11.11-1ubuntu9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
AssertionMessage: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x088af2e8 ***
Date: Thu Apr 1 23:14:40 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/aptitude
ProcCmdline: aptitude update
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Signal: 6
SourcePackage: aptitude
StacktraceTop:
 __kernel_vsyscall ()
 raise () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 abort () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
 ?? () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
Title: aptitude assert failure: *** glibc detected *** aptitude: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x088af2e8 ***
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